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May 28th, 2011
July 10th, 2009
04:24 pm - next
inspiration for the next thing i'm doing
these boys
i adore them
this fat bastard
you may remember him
im finishing up the sketches, i'll show them to you soon.
tonight: korean food and bruno and chubby.
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July 6th, 2009
10:47 pm - firsts
My art business has been a little quiet, at least on the surface. I've been processing a lot of information and ideas from travel, catching up on work, catching up on the part-time desk gig, catching up on spending time sketching and drawing, writing, cooking, cleaning, settling.
thinking
Meanwhile, as i do that, my first published article came out, in Stuffed Magazine, and hit Jo-Ann Fabrics, Borders, Barnes & Nobles, etc, all over the country.
Meanwhile, my first check for writing an article, for said magazine, came in the mail, and I felt another milestone under my feet.
Meanwhile, these three bastards are on their way home, and will be available for consumption soon.
Meanwhile, I've got two more of my 'children' arriving in Maryland for my first plush-art-show experience, at the Art Whino gallery, for the Mortal Plush show, this Saturday, July 11.
Meanwhile, I am keeping to what I want and keeping it honest and keeping quiet.
wabi sabi
dusty yarn
expensive beer
worn-out hands
5am
charcoal
my dog
banjos
gondry
cheddar
florenza pincushions
mini comics
cambodia
chubby
higgins ink
henry miller
your face
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July 4th, 2009
01:30 pm
dear internet
if you're not following
this blog here (clickit)
then i don't know what's wrong with you.
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10:08 am
last night was a night for Old Rasputin
( we drink too much coffee, we drink too much stout )
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July 3rd, 2009
05:53 pm
sketchin' sketches
available here
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July 1st, 2009
11:45 pm - happy july
workity work
awesome. more here
time to refresh your browsers, kids, this thing is pretty much up and running
www.melissasuestanley.net
flickr/blogger/livejournal/facebook/myspace is ok i guess, but i prefer having a nice, clean, neat place to look at my work together more cohesively and more professional-like. Something that says "Hello, I am an artist and I'm not fucking around"... rather than "OH HAI! I MAKE STUFF wanna See? and we can be Friends!!!@!"
wouldn't it be fun to turn off all social networking sites for one month?
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June 30th, 2009
09:40 pm
well hello there
so many little things
i'm back, i'm working, the wheels are turning, less is being more
i can't really talk about my painting, or even my soft-sculpture, here
i'm so frustrated
but if before i go to sleep each day i've made something or some drawing that didn't exist when i woke up, if i can make something exist each day, then i can be ok
i need to lighten up.
here is a picture of my husband:
here is something i saw on the internets today:
here are some birds i made:
(sarlo is a nickname, i can't really explain it, it's a chubby thing)
i think i go grocery shopping three times a week because i just love it so much
the farmstand is running, and vegetables are getting better, and i love getting home and putting fresh and good smelling food away
here is a new studio monster available in my etsy shop
my paintings make pretty nice backgrounds for photographing these things.
eventually there will be a shift between sewing and painting. i'm not ready yet. but soon.
until then, these guys will continue to come into existence with my little fingers and live with me in the studio
last night chubby and i got our plane tickets for southeast asia, this fall.
to celebrate tonight i wanted a big bowl of pho
sleep now.
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June 28th, 2009
12:23 pm
Hey! Can we all please stop freaking dying for a week or two? WTF.
so long, you crazy bastard.
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June 27th, 2009
10:08 pm
travel brained
taking a little break from work (update later, tomorrow maybe)
i'm going through and fixing the travel blog - putting back in all the pictures from Vietnam and Cambodia.
Planning the trip for this fall.
vietnam-thailand-laos-cambodia-vietnam
in vietnam we'll see thiet and ly and mien
in cambodia we'll see samedi's family again
in thailand we'll see my brother
in laos we'll see everything
in the meantime, slowly putting the photos back in. click here, scroll down a little
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June 22nd, 2009
06:42 am - home
sweet home, chicago. suburbs.
apart from a little jet-lag, an 8 hour flight ain't nothin'. i like that.
my little bosaki did not make it, he was gone when i came home
sad.
my magazine came in the mail
and it looks great. it's out July 1, or order from stampington.com
the pile of work on my desk is enourmous.
i just want to draw
i will now find time for everything.
pour a pot of coffee, crack the knuckles.
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June 16th, 2009
07:56 am
RAAAAAA!
switzerland is awesome.
bloggin' monster
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June 9th, 2009
12:13 pm - slothy wall monster
Hello from Switzerland. Again.
Sitting in hotel waiting for chubby. Dinner. Rest.
In the meantime, here's something I finished before I left. It's slothy.
( moar )
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June 5th, 2009
11:37 am
HELLOOOOOOO FROM SWITZERLAND!!!
i got a sunburn and a belly full of beer.
---->http://edandmel_travel.livejournal.com
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June 4th, 2009
12:52 am
i have a whole photo shoot for the guy on the left to upload, but i'm exhausted and need to go to switzerland now K BYE.
(PS: Posting from Switzerland starts FRIDAY. You can read it here: http://edandmel_travel.livejournal.com)
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12:29 am - July 1
this thing hits July 1! get yo' copy. i got some things going on inside of it.
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May 31st, 2009
01:02 pm - never a dull moment
before yesterdays wedding
after yesterdays wedding
good long catholic mass all in polish
i dont know what everyone else did in between but me and chubby and issac found a great place in justice that served amazing pierogi and okocim and sausage and cabbage and we shacked up there for 3 hours
then, reception where i got to talk to samedi's cousin about cambodia
and an endless supply of home-made polish vodka
and, mr zane lampry, if you're reading this, what the guy smoking outside told me was actually true: if you drink *only* the polish home-made vodka, you will -not- get a hangover. (you might go blind, or lose a few hours of your night...) and, this morning i can say that was a true statement.
i'm amazed.
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May 29th, 2009
05:08 pm
oh, the internets.
i want to unplug you now but i have 2 commissions to complete, a website to finish before my magazine article comes out, a travel blog to fix before i leave.
in one week i'll be somewhere around..
oh...
here:
...where i will rest my brain and sew nothing and think a lot about painting and hopefully draw a shit ton
also we had a picnic again today
you've got to have picnics.
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May 28th, 2009
01:33 pm
for me these fortune cookie embroideries are somewhere between: reactionary joke against the perpetuation of bullshit aesthetics and general crap, and, just something i think is funny and a good idea and enjoy making.
i amuse only myself, i suppose. probably bad for business...
(i do like these though and hope someone else does too...)
anyway.
this catcow is almost done
i've been really itching to use this great colorway yarn i got - the one up front there - it's from uruguay and it smells amazing and its soft and the colors are amazing. i dont like making whole ami's out of colorway yarn - but for horns and details it's perfect.
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May 27th, 2009
10:44 pm - prototype
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